2018 · Q120
In the following items, each sentence is given in Active Voice followed by four options. Select the option that most appropriately expresses the sentence in Passive Voice (or vice versa) and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
India won freedom with the blood and sweat of hundreds and thousands of Indians.
EnglishActive and Passive Voice
- AIndia had won freedom with the blood and sweat of hundreds and thousands of Indians
- BFreedom had been won by India with the blood and sweat of hundreds and thousands of Indians
- CFreedom was won by India with the blood and sweat of hundreds and thousands of Indians
- DFreedom was won by hundreds and thousands of Indians with their blood and sweat
Explanation
‘Won’ is past indefinite, so the passive is ‘was won’: ‘Freedom was won by India …’. Options (a) and (b) shift to the past perfect, and (d) wrongly makes the Indians the agent and drops ‘by India’. Hence option (c) is correct.